Protector means or guard for cigarette holders



' 1,639,993 Aug. 9 D. GOLOGAN PROTECTOR MEANS OR GUARD FOR CIGARETTE HOLDERS Filed April 1. 1924 AIVURNEKS ,Patented Aug. 23, 1927.

UNITED, STATES DUMITRU GOLOGAN, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

PROTECTOR MnAns R GUARD FOR CIGARETTE HOLDERS.

Application filed April 1, 1924. Serial No. 703,351.

holders, with a view of providing the holder and the lighted cigarette carried by the holder, with means, in the form of aguard, g

which will prevent the ashes and sparks from dropping upon the garments of'the smoker, or when used in the home, from dropping upon the floor, carpets, or rugs, as

the case may be.

The present invention, therefore, has for its principal object, the provision of a novel and simply constructed protectormeans for a cigarette-holder and the lighted cigarette carried by the holder, which Wlll not interfere with the smoking of the cigarette, and which serves to collect the ashes from the cigarette, as the latter is being consumed, so as to prevent the ashes from dropping upon the garments of the smoker, or when used in the home, from dropping upon the floor, carpets, rugs, or the like;

and, furthermore, to prevent the ashes and sparks from flying about, especially, when smoking in an automobile.

Other objects of the present invention not at this time more particularly enumerated 3 will be clearly understood from the following detailed description of the present invention.

With the various objects of the present invention in View, the said invention consists, primarily, in the novel protector-means or guard for cigarette holders hereinafter set forth; and, the said invention consists, furthermore, in the novel arrangements and combinations of the various devices and parts, as well as in the details of the construct-ion of the said parts, all of which will be more fully described in the following specification, and then finally embodied in the clauses of the claim which are appended to and which form an essential part of the said specification.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a view, illustrative of the use h of the protector-means or guard with a cigarette-holder and a cigarette, when used by a person smoking and seated in an automobile.

Figure 2 is a view, made on an enlarged scale, of the combined cigarette-holder and the protector-means or guard, showing one embodimentof the principles of the present invention; Figure 3 is a longitudinal vertical section of the cigarette-holder and the protector-means or guard; and Figure 4 is a horizontal representation of the said cigarette-holder and the protector-means or uard, said view showing in connection therewith and in elevation, a' lighted cigarette and a portion of the ashes from the cigarette collected in said protector-means or guard.

Figure 5 is a vertical cross-section, taken on line 5-5 in said Figure 2; Figure 6 is an end-view of the protector-means or guard, said View being made on an enlarged scale; Figure 7 is a cross-section of the protector-means or guard, said section being taken on line 7-7 in said Figure 2, and said view also being made on an enlarged scale; and Figure 8 is a vertical section, taken on line 88 in Figure 6, looking in the direction of the arrow at in said figure. Figure 9 is a perspective view of t-hewire-mesh gauze protector-means or guard, showing its one end-portion slitted to provide tabs, adapted to be folded so as to provide the re-enforced closed end of the guard, represented in said Figure 6 of the drawings.

Similar characters of reference are employed in all of the above described views, to indicate corresponding parts.

Referring now to the said figures of the drawings, the reference-character 1 inclicates any usual cigarette-holder, of which 2 is the mouth-piece, 3 is the receiving end or socket of the same, into which one end of a cigarette 4: is adapted to be forced and held, as shown in Figure 4 of the drawings, and 5 is the usual smoke-conducting duct 0f the cigarette-holder. The outer surfaceportion surrounding the receiving end 3 of the cigarette-holder is usually cut away, as shown in the accompanying drawings, so as to provide an annular recess, as 6, onto which is sprung, in separable retaining or holding engagement, a series of spring-fingers, as 8, which extend from one of the marginal edges, as 9, of a suitably formed ring or ferrule 7. This ring or ferrule is also preferably provided with suitably disposed perforations 10, for proper ventilation, to prevent the protector-means or guard from becoming overheated, and also to permit of a perfect suction through the cigarette-holder, when smoking.

The above-mentioned protector-means or guard is indicated by the reference-character 11, and has its end-portion 12 surmounted by the said ring or ferrule 7, and permanently affixed in said ring or ferrule by means of solder, or otherwise.

In practice, this protector-means or guard 11 is made of a very fine wire-mesh or gauze, being suitably rolled so as to provlde a tubular element, the overlapping and longitudinally extending edge-portions 13 being suitably secured together by means of solder, or otherwise.

At its opposite end-portion 14 the tube thus produced is suitably slitted, as at 15, so as to provide a number of tabs 16 which are bent over at right angles to the cylindrical surface of the tube, and are suitably secured together in their overlapping relation, substantially as indicated in Figures 6 and 8 of the drawings, by means of solder or otherwise, and whereby the end-portion of the protector-means or guard is suitably re-enforced and strengthened against collapse when taking hold of the same for removal from or for forcing its ferrulemounted end upon the depressed or recessed portion 6 of the cigarette-holder, as will be clearly evident.

Having in the foregolng description set forth one general construction of protectormeans or guard for cigarette-holders, I will now briefly set forth its use with the holder for attaching and lighting the cigarette, and for storing the ashes and arresting any sparks, within the protector-means or guard, while smoking.

To attach the cigarette to the holder, the protector-means or guard, at its fierrulemounted end, is withdrawn from its retained connection with the cigarette-holder. The cigarette is thereupon attached to the holder and lighted in precisely the same manner as is now ordinarily done. After the cigarette has been lighted, the tubular protectormeans or guard is passed over the. lighted end of the cigarette and its ring or ferrule brought into holding engagement with the. end-portion of the cigarette-holder, in the manner hereinabove described, and as illustrated in Figures 2, 3 and 4 of the drawings. When the several devices are thus assembled, the wire-mesh or gauze protect-ow means or guard does not in the least interfere with the smoking of the cigarette, and serves as a collector of the ashes and sparks from the burning cigarette, as will be clearly evident.

Of course, I am aware that my present invention is capable of changes in the construction of the several devices without departing from the scope of the present invention as set forth in the foregoing specification. Hence, I do not limit my present invention to the exact arrangements and combinations of the various devices and parts as described in the said specification, nor do I confine myself to the exact details of the construction of the said parts as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

I claim The combination with'a cigarette holder, of a guard member comprising a tube formed of Wire mesh, said tube having one end open and adapted to be removably connected to the cigarette holder, the tube being provided at its opposite end with a plurality of triangular tabs bent at right angles to the longitudinal axis of the tube and forming a closure for the tube at said end.

In testimony, that I claim the invention set forth above I have hereunto set my hand this 27th day of March, 1.924.

DUMITRU GOLOGAN. 

